John B. Allen (MrBallen)

That was the only light in the room.

But it's truly like a pitch black room.

And so I'm laying there and I still can't sleep and my feet are closest to the door and Wolf is the same orientation above me and Nick is the same orientation next to me.

And I'm laying there and at a certain point I hear footsteps out on the wraparound porch and I didn't hear a car approach.

I also wasn't like actively listening for sounds outside.

I was trying to fall asleep, but I just, I remember hearing these footsteps on the wraparound porch.

And I think that I mentioned it before in another story, it's amazing what your brain will do.

I've seen this in this particular story, and I've also seen it in the military where

you're met with overwhelming evidence that something bad is happening, but your brain is like, nope, everything is fine.

And it's the middle of the night on a mountain, and I'm hearing footsteps on the wraparound porch.

And so my brain immediately jumps to, oh, it's Nick's brother.

It has to be Nick's brother.

It's like 2, 3 in the morning right now.

We knew he was going to be here.

I've never met him.

And it's funny, my go-to thought was

I'm going to pretend to be asleep because I'm not, I don't want to have a social interaction with this dude right now.

Never met him before.

It's like three in the morning.

I was going to walk in and be like, yo, get up.